B12, iron and a dietitian appointment worth having

Started 1 February 2025 · 21 replies · 227 hearts · read 2.6k times

IvesPenzance, UK · 1 February 2025

1.5 years ago

Starting a thread on this because it keeps coming up in ones and twos: B12, iron and a dietitian appointment worth having

Practical question, and possibly a silly one.

The thing I have not been able to find anywhere is how people manage this when the week has no fixed shape at all.

Practical question, and possibly a silly one, but the logistics of this are defeating me considerably more than the medicine is.

This is the boring administrative kind of problem, which I gather is the kind that actually gets solved when you ask.

Thank you. This circle has solved four practical problems for me already and I am hoping for a fifth.

NemoneLewes, UK

Protein without it becoming a chore is the whole problem, and most of the advice assumes a plate I do not eat from.

9me too 3

AshwinBengaluru, IN

Coming back at two years to say it is completely routine now, that my bloods are fine, and that the planning stopped being work months ago.

MableBolton, UK

Nothing here is medical advice and on supplements in particular it is worth a proper conversation rather than a thread.

RenFacilitatorBristol, UK

I am going to redirect us back to the original poster, who has not had a chance to answer any of the questions put to them.

NoleneDurban, ZA

Something practical: I keep something ready in the fridge at all times, because when my appetite is low I will not cook.

BrynAberystwyth, UK

Reading Nolene, I recognised more of that than I expected to.

My dietitian understood plant-based eating properly and that made an enormous difference compared to the general advice I had been given.

MorayElgin, UK

I read this twice. The second time was for the last paragraph.

TanviMumbai, IN

What worked for me was spreading it across the day rather than trying to get it all into one meal, which was never going to happen.

PietPretoria, ZA

My family eat the same things I do and nothing about the household changed, which was more achievable than I had expected.

CloverTotnes, UK

#10

Tanvi said something I want to sit with for a second.

What I found is that the powders I had dismissed turned out to be the thing that made this manageable during the hard months.

IvesPenzance, UK

#11

Reading Clover, I recognised more of that than I expected to.

Somebody here suggested keeping a very short list on the fridge, and mine has been there for eighteen months and I still use it.

NemoneLewes, UK

#12

I had to stop treating this as a nutritional puzzle and start treating it as a shopping problem, and it became much easier.

9me too 4

AshwinBengaluru, IN

#13

The soya question comes up here every few months and my dietitian was completely unbothered, which was a relief after a lot of internet noise.

MableBolton, UK

#14

What I got wrong was relying on things that needed cooking. Everything that has worked is something I can eat without a decision.

TorrinAberdeen, UK

#15

My bloods have been unremarkable throughout, which I attribute mostly to a supplement I was already taking rather than anything clever.

NoleneDurban, ZA

#16

Torrin has already said most of this and I want to add the one part that was different for me.

I found the restaurant side harder than the home side. Two constraints at once narrows a menu considerably.

BrynAberystwyth, UK

#17

Picking up Mable’s point rather than starting a new one.

Something that helped was accepting a repetitive week. The same four things, most weeks, and my dietitian was entirely content.

9me too 2

MorayElgin, UK

#18

What surprised me was how much easier this got once my appetite settled. The difficult stretch was months three to six and then it resolved.

TanviMumbai, IN

#19

My honest report is that I eat better now than I did before, mostly because I finally had to think about it properly.

RenFacilitatorBristol, UK

#20

Speaking as a facilitator: the person who asked wanted company for a difficult week rather than a plan, and the thread has given both, in that order.

CloverTotnes, UK

#21

Reading Tanvi, I recognised more of that than I expected to.

I would say ask specifically for somebody who knows plant-based eating. The first person I saw clearly did not and it wasted an appointment.